---
type: "Bill"
title: "Waste Management"
description: "Waste Management; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to review and update its report on retail bags and submit the updated report to the Legislature by a specified date; requiring a local government to pay a specified amount of compensation to a displaced private waste company at the end of a specified notice period; removing a provision authorizing a local government to pay a specified amount of compensation to a private waste company as an alternative to delaying displacement for a specified period; defining the term “storm-generated yard trash”, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 694"
citation: "Florida SB 694 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-125"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodrigues"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b66571d0-826e-4f3e-bcff-72bf196a652a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/694/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c491ee12c8fc68550832e489fc6e26dc56b298621404a12051a95fc2e1e6b843"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 694 (2021) — Waste Management

Waste Management; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to review and update its report on retail bags and submit the updated report to the Legislature by a specified date; requiring a local government to pay a specified amount of compensation to a displaced private waste company at the end of a specified notice period; removing a provision authorizing a local government to pay a specified amount of compensation to a private waste company as an alternative to delaying displacement for a specified period; defining the term “storm-generated yard trash”, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-125.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 694 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/694/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 694 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/694/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 694 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/694/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 694 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/694/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–2** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodrigues — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 02/15/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-02-15** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-15** Now in Community Affairs
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/30/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-30** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2021-04-02** Original reference(s) removed: Rules
- **2021-04-02** Remaining references corrected to Appropriations
- **2021-04-02** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/15/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 3
- **2021-04-18** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-125

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b66571d0-826e-4f3e-bcff-72bf196a652a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).